Ratline Essay

May 6th, 2015

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I am currently a rat at the Virginia Military Institute, and before you make the incomprehensively huge decision to come to this school, I want you to be aware that the vocabulary that you will acquire here will change the way that you speak and understand language dramatically. Your relationships with the people you know now are products of communication, and if you come to the school, the entire life you have built around your style of communication will change drastically

Ratline EssayThe Silent Language of the RatlinePre-Strains,I am currently a rat at the Virginia Military Institute, and before you make the incomprehensively huge decision to come to this school, I want you to be aware that the vocabulary that you will acquire here will change the way that you speak and understand language dramatically. Your relationships with the people you know now are products of communication, and if you come to the school, the entire life you have built around your style of communication will change drastically. My brother rats and I speak in ways that no other outsider to our community could possibly understand. The ratline has developed a bond between us that allows us to communicate in verbal and non-verbal ways to help each other make it through the ratline. Without the language that we rats share, the ratline would be a nearly insurmountable obstacle. From something as subtle as us making eye contact, to us all speaking and having our own acquired rat language, our rat discourse community is unique in its language compared to any other discourse community in the world. It is a language that actually allows us, the least powerful people in Vir